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Frontex asks for 775 border guards
2015-10-02
Today Frontex launched a call for 775 additional border guards to be
deployed at the external borders of the European Union.
This is the largest number of border guards Frontex has ever requested
in the history of the agency.
The officers are to assist mainly Italy and Greece in the registration
and identification of migrants coming from Libya and Turkey.
“Since the beginning of this year over 470 000 migrants arrived in
Greece and Italy alone. No country can possibly handle such high
migratory pressure at its borders by itself. It is crucial that all
those arriving in the EU are properly registered and identified,†said
Frontex Executive Director Fabrice Leggeri.
Frontex requested 670 officers – mainly screeners, debriefers and
interpreters to be deployed in Italy and Greece, in addition to 105
officers to be deployed at various external land borders of the European
Union.
The screening officers play a key role in helping authorities to
determine the nationality of the incoming migrants in order to identify
and register them. Debriefers gather information about the activities of
smuggling networks.
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